Mother Tongue

Ruth has been with Nora for fourteen years Everybody knows about their relationship except for her mother Estela who has never suspected it Ruth who is almost forty feels the need to confess her homosexuality to her mother who at first is shocked and collapses on the floor She then feels the desire to understand her daughter who has hidden an important part of her life from her for many years So elderly Estela begins to discover the LWorld she reads books and magazines she tries to meet her daughters ex girlfriends and she goes to lesbian nightclubs and meetingplaces creating misunderstandings and comic situations What does Ruth think about this At first she is annoyed by her mothers intrusion into her life but she will soon understand Estelas reasons and she will rely on her to get over her crisis with Nora This sharp amusing comedy deals with the difficult parentchild relationship which is portrayed through irony and without hypocrisy